quotes about Blasphemy
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All our blasphemies are only little prayers.
-- Antoni LangeSource : "Vox Posthuma". Poem by Antoni Lange, 1895.
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Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
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Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously.
-- Donna J. HarawaySource : "Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century)". Book by Donna J. Haraway (pp. 149-181), 1991.
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It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.
-- Ephrem the Syrian -
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
-- Richard DawkinsSource : Twitter post from Aug 28, 2013
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
-- Salman Rushdie -
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.
-- Samuel Hopkins AdamsSource : Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.
-- Stephen FrySource : Twitter post from Sep 27, 2012
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When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy
-- Stephenie Meyer -
In 1979, you had the revolution in Iran. You had the Hudood Ordinances in Pakistan, which are the laws that are notoriously used against women, which are theoretically used against thieves although they're never carried out - an actual amputation or an actual stoning. The blasphemy laws, again, never actually carried out, though they're there, heavy with menace on the statute books.
-- Sadakat Kadri